This course will consider the detail of farmers’ income tax payment planning. Specifically we will consider:

• Spreads of income and expenditure
• Opportunities for using income equalisation
• How tax pooling can help plan tax payments

Upon satisfactory completion of this course, you will be able to:

• appreciate the opportunities farmers have to spread income and expenditure to their client’s advantage
• help clients with planning their actual tax payments, including the use of tax pooling
• explain the detail of how income equalisation works, including the recent modifications to IRD’s adverse event treatment

This course will be suited to:

Farm accountants and their senior employees and their tax aware intermediate staff.

1.25 CPD hours

PRESENTER

Jim Gordon, Director, Jim Gordon Tax Ltd
Jim Gordon FCA started preparing farm accounts in 1974. He has been involved with almost all of the primary sector tax reforms since 1986. Jim brings a wide range of both theoretical and practical experience to his presentations.